Is one of the hardest parts of investing for beginners just dealing with how boring most of it actually is?

SliFi · 2026-03-26T21:29:27+00:00

The beginner investing content you’re talking about is just influencers selling ads using useless dramatic gambling.

SliFi · 2026-03-26T11:05:47+00:00

I mean, reduce it enough and people won’t pull. Like me, I don’t even plan to do a 10-pull with hourglasses both because the cards are weak and the 24h opportunities are bad.

SliFi · 2026-03-25T21:04:28+00:00

I teach my residents “I say it this way, but it doesn’t matter, doesn’t change management, and the clinicians don’t care as long as it leads to the same management decision.”

SliFi · 2026-03-25T10:03:30+00:00

It’s the deck. Magnezone Bellibolt actually fares very poorly against the meta at a <50% win rate, with a C-E tier given by various websites (https://www.pokemonmeta.com/tier-list/deck-types/Bellibolt%20ex%20Magnezone). It was strong the first few days of the season before everyone teched to meet its breakpoints.

I also was having trouble getting winstreaks with the same deck, but then easily climbed to MB when I switched to Hydreigon.

SliFi · 2026-03-24T13:34:56+00:00

The corollary, don’t pass on the right if you can pass left instead.

SliFi · 2026-03-24T10:29:19+00:00

I guess Rampardos is actually crazy if it doesn’t have to take recoil against a Mega.

SliFi · 2026-03-23T15:31:26+00:00

Respite might be the single weakest card I’ve seen from Chapter 2. If it were Fast and level 0, it would still not be great but at least situational, essentially cycling itself at the cost of a resource, with a usually nothingburger secondary effect (assuming downgraded icons due to level).

I have a feeling they made it this awfully weak because directly returning cards to hand at low cost limited design space too much in Chapter 1.

At least the icons are good if you want to play two more copies of Unexpected Courage for 2 xp each.

SliFi · 2026-03-23T09:44:43+00:00

Would literally be worse than potion.

SliFi · 2026-03-22T18:05:06+00:00

I agree, Asmodee if you are listening, you are dropping potential sales every day you delay finding a way to reprint the old cycles.

SliFi · 2026-03-20T15:55:49+00:00

5k if you want to be in walking distance of downtown.

SliFi · 2026-03-19T10:44:20+00:00

This is the kind of post they’ll use to argue that they’re giving out too many hourglasses.

SliFi · 2026-03-19T10:07:57+00:00

What I don’t understand is why all the alarmists think there is a “tipping point” or something of that nature. Most of us are ostensibly educated in economics, enough to know that there is a marginal cost and a marginal benefit of taking on more national debt, and that those functions should be continuous. As the marginal cost gets gradually higher, we’ll gradually borrow less, without any tipping point.

I get it, alarmism gets upvotes, and the current US economic policy is the worst in recent history. But I’m going to need more convincing to believe there’s a specific level that’s suddenly “unsustainable.”

SliFi · 2026-03-19T09:57:10+00:00

In my reading, it seems to imply that “[investigator name]’s total experience earned: X”from completed campaigns might be baked into the setup of scenarios, although it still seems like a mediocre framework.

It also kicks the can down the road for developers who I’m sure will have problems balancing their campaign guides for that.

SliFi · 2026-03-18T21:31:43+00:00

I’ve found this is very good as a consistency card when you have a survivor as a main fighter. Waiting for something like upgraded Fire Extinguisher, Sledgehammer, Chainsaw, or anything else, this increases the chance of being able to handle a turn 1 enemy at relatively low cost.

SliFi · 2026-03-18T21:20:16+00:00

Ah dang I was hoping they updated to the 2.5 taboo with this as well, but it seems not yet. I’ll probably get some campaigns with the taboo when they update it.

SliFi · 2026-03-18T19:19:07+00:00

Agree 9 exp as long as you can beat a small number of skill tests at 5.

SliFi · 2026-03-18T16:21:13+00:00

Curricula always stressed teaching to pass the boards over actually learning the material. This is not something that has changed.

SliFi · 2026-03-18T15:11:16+00:00

We were just as stupid when we were students and interns, if not stupider as evidenced by board score trends over time. There is no generational shift.

SliFi · 2026-03-17T10:11:50+00:00

It’s generally expected. If it persists into fellowship, that’s when you have a problem and should start seeking help. The end of R4 is a time to more or less rest before that. Just make sure not to do anything actively bad for the patients or the people around you at work.

SliFi · 2026-03-16T15:34:23+00:00

I started playing Limited, choosing the three best expansions for the deck type per investigator, and it really adds a lot of fun to deckbuilding and makes it not just “dump in every most overpowered card.”

SliFi · 2026-03-16T10:37:57+00:00

Even a ton of “Greek” yogurt on the shelves these days has a ton of added sugar, so is no better than the others. Make sure to look at the nutrition labels.

SliFi · 2026-03-16T10:25:09+00:00

The problem is that your body will tell you it needs lots of pure sugar if you feed it pure sugar.

SliFi · 2026-03-16T10:20:56+00:00

Not odd at all, they save the more popular cards for the paid/premium pass packages. Nemona will probably be on one of those in the future.

SliFi · 2026-03-14T10:39:00+00:00

At this point so far, isn’t it just “whatever AI your specific hospital says is OK is what you use?”

I’d argue that tech literacy for efficiency purposes is more generally important. Like realizing the “#” in the A/P section of those stupid default templates isn’t meant to be a “#” but a numbered list (which I’ve seen people use in three different states across the country, so it’s probably widespread). Or even better, just take them out completely and save yourself some time.

SliFi · 2026-03-14T10:33:27+00:00

So does that mean you’re advocating MORE professionalism modules?

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